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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I was always the youngest. Started school at 4, learned to read then. Graduated at 17 and started college at 17. Published in an academic journal and graduated college at 21. Started grad school then got doctorate at 26 and purchased my first home then too.

and I was mildly popular. I'm now the VP of a Dc based non-profit and make crazy money after a childhood marred by poverty.[/quote]

Very similar story to a point...here -- I started college at 16 and graduated at 20, but you seriously have done better than me in life!  Wow.

But feel like our motivation was the same, to escape a bad life.  Not sure how that impacts oldest/youngest, etc. when you introduce such a huge driving factor.[/quote]

Wow. That's so nice. I'm the poster you quoted. I do think that i did well but the poverty part still impacts me - sometimes negatively . But I didn't dwell on that b/c the OP asked about starting school early. I think that b/c I was young and physically small I was seen as smarter than I might have been.

I like that you used the word "escape" b/c I often say "I escaped poverty". Like it was a prison that tried to keep me in. Some truth in that.

and i agree, to be clear, escaping poverty was my motivation.  [/quote]

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